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An eight car pileup near Lake Ozark, MO. leaves two women dead and four others injured. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports the accident happened on U.S. 54 at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday April 9th when a tractor trailer rear ended a smaller car, which caused a chain reaction crash involving another big rig, a car, two SUV’s, a car, a van and a pickup truck...

Every year thousands of innocent people are injured or killed following collisions with tractor-trailers and other large commercial vehicles. The massive size and weight of these vehicles make truck accidents almost always disastrous, often resulting in severe personal injury or death. ..

Big rigs can be an intimidating part of driving on Missouri roads and highways. According to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), about 3,000 large trucks are involved in non-fatal Missouri accidents every year while about 1,000 are involved in injury crashes. These commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) can weigh tens of thousands more pounds than the typical passenger vehicle, which is why car-truck accidents are often so severe...

We have all likely experienced fear as a large truck looms next to us on the road or highway. These commercial trucks far outmatch passenger vehicles in both size and weight, making an accident between the two a potentially devastating event. These trucks are undoubtedly large, but their size is not what causes accidents. What are some of the most common causes of truck accidents?..